On Sunday and Monday, July 16 and 17, the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival presented the fifth of its seven concerts of the 2017 season. Sunday’s concert was held at the 1717 Meetinghouse—the magnificent, acoustically excellent structure that has served as a community gathering place in West Barnstable for 300 years. On Monday, the festival returned to its primary venue, Church of the Holy Spirit, Orleans. Joining the festival’s founder/director/pianist Donald Enos were three outstanding musicians: cellist Bo Ericsson and violinist Heather Goodchild Wade—both principals with the Cape Symphony—and violist Laura Manko Sahin. In a nod to the tricentennial celebration of the 1717 Meetinghouse, the program spanned three centuries of great music, including a Vivaldi violin concerto of 1717, the great Schumann Piano Quartet, a viola solo Caprice by Vieuxtemps, and masterworks by Mozart and Saint-Saëns.
Meeting House Chamber Music Festival
The Meeting House Chamber Music Festival is the longest-running music festival on Cape Cod for a reason. This year's line-up once again includes an extraordinary mix of engaging music from different periods and countries around the world. For the sixth concert of the series on Monday, July 24, the festival will remain at Church of the Holy Spirit. The season finale will be held on Sunday-Monday, July 30-31, at both Highfield Hall in Falmouth and Church of the Holy Spirit. To view the schedule for the entire season, please see Meeting House Chamber Music Festival.
ADMISSION: Tickets available at the door. Single tickets: $25. 7-Concert Series tickets valid at all locations: $110. CONTACT: [email protected].
Enjoy this short clip—a taste of the beauty and excitement in every Meeting House Chamber Music Festival concert!
Musicians Performing in the July 16-17 Concert
Pianist Donald Enos, a native Cape Codder, is the founder and director of the Meeting House Chamber Music Festival. Mr. Enos holds the position of Wesley DeLacy Chair, Keyboards, with the Cape Symphony and is the resident pianist for the Chatham Chorale and Chamber Singers. He is also director of music at the South Dennis Congregational Church, where he often presents concerts on the church’s Snetzler Chamber Organ (1762), believed to be the oldest organ in continuous use in the United States.
Bo Ericsson, cellist, a native of Sweden, graduated from the Gothenborg Conservatory of Music and studied at the Swedish Radio School in Stockholm. He has been principal cellist with both the Bergen (Norway) Philharmonic Orchestra and the Upsala (Sweden) Chamber Orchestra. As a cellist of the Berwald String Quartet he toured extensively throughout Europe. On Cape Cod he is principal cellist with the Cape Symphony, an active chamber musician and teacher of cello, and a member of the Schultze-Ericsson Cello Duo.
Since 2007, violinist Heather Goodchild Wade has held the position of principal second violin with the Cape Symphony. Prior to that appointment she lived in Chicago, where she played with the Illinois Philharmonic and South Bend Symphony. Heather has performed in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Mechanics Hall and Jordan Hall in Massachusetts, and at the Auditorium Theater, Millennium Park and Ganz Recital Hall in Chicago. Now a mother of four, Ms. Wade maintains an active life at her home in Rhode Island, well balanced by her orchestral and chamber music appearances throughout New England.
Violist Laura Manko Sahin has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Following her solo debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2005, she has soloed with the Cape Symphony, New England Repertory Orchestra, Oure Pleasure Singers, University of North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston University Choir. Laura was formerly the Principal violist of the Cape Symphony and violist of the Boston Harp Trio. She has been a member of the Knoxville and Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestras, as well as resident artist at the Luzerne Music Center, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Meeting House Chamber Music Festival. Laura recently moved to Albuquerque, where she is on the string faculty at the New Mexico School of Music. She regularly performs with the New Mexico Philharmonic, Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and Chatter ABQ. Formerly, she was living in Ankara, Turkey where she was the violist of the Bilkent Piano Quartet and Nodus Contemporary Music Ensemble, as well as a violist with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra—Turkey’s premiere touring orchestra.
Previews and Reviews
Keith Powers previews the season in the Cape Cod Times
Keith Powers reviews premiere concert in the Cape Cod Times